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The Connecticut PURA has assigned Docket 12-06-02RE04 to review the Power Procurement Plan for electricity standard service as a result of Public Act 25-173, which was signed by Gov. Ned Lamont on July 1, 2025.

As previously reported Gov. Ned Lamont of Connecticut signe  SB4  an expansive new energy law.  As reported previously, the law gives utilities increased flexibility in the purchase of electricity to serve default service customers, provides additional support for nuclear energy, limits certain aspects of the state’s renewable energy programs like NRES and RRES in a bid to lower customer energy bills, and reduces the RPS obligations facing retail suppliers from 2026 through 2030. 

Among other things, Public Act No. 25-173  requires the standard default service procurement plan “shall” include a requirement that the EDCs be able to “engage in dynamic market purchases” for not less than 25% of the standard service load. The new Act is entitled, “An Act Concerning Energy Affordability, Access And Accountability.” The act aims to improve service and reduce costs for electricity ratepayers in the state.

Moreover, Public Act 25-173 mandates that the procurement plan, “requir[e] each electric distribution company, individually or jointly, to develop and maintain the ability to engage in dynamic market purchases for not less than twenty-five per cent of the standard service load in a flexible manner designed to allow such company to purchase energy products during periods of lower energy cost, subject to a risk mitigation provision pursuant to subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of this section, based on the active monitoring of day-ahead and real-time energy markets[.]”

Public Act 25-173 further requires the state’s existing default service procurement manager to propose amendments to the procurement plan that “shall” include, but not be limited to, modifications regarding the “potential” use of:

(i) multiple competitive solicitations each year for the procurement of energy at intervals identified in the procurement plan, or as determined from time to time by the procurement manager to serve the best interests of the ratepayers, provided such determination is in accordance with the applicable provisions of the procurement plan

(ii) contracts with durations not exceeding three years for the procurement of energy, and

(iii) fixed-price energy supply contracts in addition to full requirements contracts

Public Act 25-173
12-06-02RE04 (07/09/2025) 
(PURA Review of Power Procurement Plan – Amendment Pursuant to Public Act 25-173)